Moderate politician who became Chancellor (1918) and Prime Minister of Prussia because Wilhelm II thought him capable of bringing the war to an expeditious end. Throughout the war he had been a dedicated Red Cross worker and was vociferously opposed to unrestricted submarine warfare. Was an arch opponent of Ludendorff and ended up dismissing him, and also convinced the Kaiser to abdicate. He was the son of the Prussian general Prince Wilhelm of Baden and his wife Maria von Leuchtenberg. His mother Maria was the granddaughter of Napoleon Bonaparte's step-son Eugene do Beauharnais. Prince von Baden was married to Maria-Luise von Hannover-Cumberland. Their daughter Marie Alexandra was killed in 1944 during an air raid over Frankfurt. Max von Baden died on 6 July 1929 in Salem near Überlingen.